Hi
I have a question related to desktop search (indexing). Those of us who have used Windows (7 and above) know that the start menu of windows provide a very good search facility. You just have to type the name of the file and it fetches it from any directory/sub-directories. Because windows provide indexing options for entire drives.
I am using Cinnamon Desktop on top of arch linux. Cinnamon start menu also provies search facility but it is limited to bookmarked directories only. It does not give search results in deep-sub-directories (like windows). My question is that how can I enable this (windows like) search (indexing) facility for my cinnamon desktop?
Regards

You can use "find" on console.

http://ss64.com/bash/find.html

Yes. I know that I can use 'find' as well as 'locate' but I am looking for start menu search functionality.

Update:
I have installed 'tacker', indexed data with 'tracker daemon -s'. Add tracker applet to cinnamon panel. Its working well.
Can I implement this tracker search with cinnamon menu search?

whereis on some items
man whereis

Like Windows?
oh cut your apron stings

'whereis' also does not serve the purpose.
I am looking for real-time menu search

Linux .. their is a program out there that will index your entire system, put it in a data base, for what you're wanting, I too did the same. then came to the conclusion I am not looking of everything enough to go though all of that. Find and whereis works just fine for what I search for when I find the need to look for something.

locate indexing linux key words

Name of the program. Can you guide me that how can i put it in the database?

research the program called locate

I do not remember the name of it, it could have been locate, I do not remember, it was years ago . to me it was a waste of time to have my system categorize everything on my system shove it in a data base taking up space just to look up things i can using find and whereis to locate them from the command line,

I know about 'locate'. I was asking about the other progarm. OK leave it...

you can always go back to windows ..

I have cinnamon desktop installed on a debian jessie virtual machine, and it does real-time search for files and programs as I type in the menu search, just like Windows 7.

See my screenshots.

Does your not do this?

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Just re-read your post. Yeah, it doesnt search subdirectories for files, only what was on the desktop. Not sure how to change this. There probably some file you can edit where you can add paths.

https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert is what you want.